Congratulations to you both. I remain unsure about why my mentioning these winners is supposed to be some kind of prize and have a sneaking suspicion MR is expecting me to make fun of their reading choices or something, but I would never do a thing like that where you could see me. Now shoo, earnest readers. Go outside and play.

About Roger Sutton

Roger Sutton has been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978. Follow him on Twitter: @RogerReads.

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>I clicked on the links to see if any of the award-winning readers could be Angel, the little girl who won the summer reading contest when Roger was librarian at the Pulaski Branch in Chicago. Roger really had her number. Her name was Angel and she had long blonde hair, but Roger always referred to her as “The Bad Seed.”

The prize value comes from everyone naming your blog as the the one they’d love to take to the prom in the blogger interviews at Seven Impossible Things. I figure today’s post is the equivalent of putting a note in our blogger lockers.

“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed;To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need…”

And a question: Do speed readers and skim readers count in marathons like this? I can EASILY haul home 20 books a week from the library…but I do skim and I do speed and of the hours I take no heed….when a competition’s run….what’s the use if it ain’t FUN?!!!

DON’T expect poetry from me either for three minutes worth of fiddling…

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